Seattle Mariners team president and CEO Kevin Mather is being criticized for comments he made during a Zoom conference call with a rotating group on February 5.
The video – which came to light on Sunday – includes comments about the need for a translator for former All-Star pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma, the English aptitude of one of the organization’s top candidates and many other things that the operations team baseball team probably wants you not to know about Now.
The 46-minute video with the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club included Mather’s thoughts on the 2020 season, the next 2021 season and the overall state of team reconstruction, followed by a question and answer segment.
By mid-afternoon on Sunday, the video – which had only been uploaded to YouTube on Friday – was removed. The full transcript of the so-called Mather Zoom can be found here. On Sunday afternoon, the team had no official comments on …